Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

Chapter 3849 Rum's Need

Five minutes later, Rum brought a pot of English black tea to the table. Immediately afterwards, he brought milk, sugar, lemon slices, honey and other ingredients from the tea room and placed them on the coffee table one by one.

Chi Feichi took the initiative to invite Rum to sit down and drink tea. He released his fingers that were pressing on the needle hole on Hiroki Sawada's arm, uncovered the cotton ball, and seeing that the needle hole on Hiroki Sawada's arm was no longer bleeding, he threw the cotton ball stained with a small amount of blood into the trash can.

Rum poured two cups of tea, placed one cup in front of Chi Feichi and the other in front of himself. While adding lemon slices into the cups, he chatted with Chi Feichi, "When you drink tea, it seems that you rarely add anything to it..."

"I think even if nothing is added, the taste of the tea is already worth savoring," Chi Feichi poured a glass of milk from an empty cup and handed the milk to Sawada Hiroki. He reached out to feel the temperature of the cup in front of him, confirmed that it was just right, picked up the cup, and took a sip of the tea. "For example, the tea you brewed has a plant aroma similar to mint and lily of the valley, and a mellow taste. It is more bitter than most black teas, but the aftertaste after the bitterness is also very obvious. Coupled with the bright orange-red soup color and the golden halo on the soup surface, this should be the top-grade Uba tea produced in the Ceylon Highlands..."

"If I had known this, I wouldn't have rushed to add lemon slices. This way I could have tasted the original flavor of the tea." Rum said with emotion, and picked up the black tea with lemon slices in front of him and slowly took a sip of the tea.

Chi Feichi was not interested in comparing everyone's habits and preferences. Seeing that Rum seemed to be thinking about something while drinking tea, he became more and more certain that Rum had something to tell him. He put down the teacup and said straight to the point, "This is not the first or second time we have come into contact. You should know that I sometimes speak very directly. If you have something you want to discuss with me, you might as well say it directly."

"Since you said so..." Rum put the teacup back on the tea table and continued seriously, "Then I'll be frank. Some time ago, I followed that person's instructions and sent people to investigate Master Xiaoshu's situation. After the two people sent out the first time lost contact, I noticed the two people around Master Xiaoshu."

"Cecilia and Xia Zuo?" Chi Feichi asked.

"That's right," Rum looked at the young child Sawada Hiroki, "If the information I got is correct, the man named Xia Zuo was once an employee of a well-known American security employment company. He suffered a car accident during a mission, and one of his legs was left with an incurable sequelae. He then retired to the second line and resigned from the company two years later. The woman named Cecilia, her personal information also matches that of a retired underground boxer. However, as far as I know, the underground boxer also named Cecilia had encountered an explosion accident a few years ago. She suffered severe burns all over her body, became deaf, and one of her eyes was also burned. However, Cecilia, who was with Master Xiaoshu, did not seem to be injured. I wondered if she and the underground boxer were twin sisters or if they just looked alike, but combined with Xia Zuo's situation, I felt that things were not that simple..."

At the side, Hiroki Sawada was drinking milk from a cup when he suddenly connected to the satellite signal and said calmly, "The two of them are too conspicuous. It's really easy to investigate them."

Seeing that Sawada Hiroki's eyes were no longer like those of a child, Rum recalled the scene when he met Chi Feichi in London's Hyde Park. He felt a little emotional and quickly pulled his thoughts back to ask Chi Feichi and Sawada Hiroki for confirmation, "So, are they really the two people I investigated?"

"That's right," Chi Feichi gave an affirmative answer, "The information you investigated is all correct."

"If the information I found is correct, the two of them...especially Cecilia, her injuries should not be so easy to cure. Even if she had access to the world's top medical resources, it is impossible for her to be like this now, as if she had never been injured." Rum's eyes flickered, and soon became deep as he thought, "This is what I can't understand. Could it be that they pretended to be injured to deceive the outside world in order to achieve a certain purpose?"

Chi Feichi saw that Rum's focus was on the 'injury' and 'treatment'. He also saw the artificial eye in Rum's eye socket, which could not have a normal look no matter how lifelike it was. How could he not know why Rum talked about this matter? "They seemed to be seriously injured before, but they were just pretending to be injured in order to achieve the purpose of the operation... If I were facing outsiders, I would definitely say so, and that's how they explained it to the outside world."

Rum just felt a little disappointed, and before he could laugh at himself and say "I really thought too much", he heard Chi Feichi change the subject. He was surprised and raised his eyes to look at Chi Feichi.

"But you are not an outsider, and I don't want to deceive you." Chi Feichi looked directly at Rum, his eyes calm and without any ripples. "The two of them were indeed seriously injured, and they were cured later."

"I see..." Rum nodded. It was really hard to discern the emotions and thoughts from Chi Feichi's eyes. He stopped looking at Chi Feichi, picked up the cup, drank a sip of tea, and asked, "Did Umbrella provide them with medical assistance?"

Chi Feichi nodded in confirmation, "Yes."

"It's incredible," Rum said seriously. "I mean Umbrella's medical technology... I've read Xia Zuo's report on his rehabilitation in the hospital. It mentioned that the damaged nerves in his hands and feet have begun to atrophy. The doctor seems to think that his condition will get worse and worse. He can only try to slow down the atrophy of the nerves, but there is no way to cure it. Cecilia's treatment report also mentioned that although her burned skin can be treated with skin grafting, her hearing is almost impossible to recover. Her eyes burned by the scorching smoke cannot be restored to health, and she can only live with impaired vision in the future... I didn't expect that the two of them could recover from such injuries."

"The medical technology that Umbrella has is indeed much better than that of the outside world," Chi Feichi also picked up the cup and drank tea. He looked at Rum's artificial eye and asked directly, "Do you want to treat your eyes?"

Rum didn't expect Chi Feichi to ask so directly. His body stiffened for a moment. After being surprised, he smiled helplessly and reached out to touch his artificial eye. "You are really direct... To be honest, my eye has been injured for many years. By now, the eye nerve has atrophied and necrotic. Even if the eyeball can be transplanted and the rejection reaction after the transplant can be effectively controlled, my eye is no longer suitable for transplantation. So, I didn't hold that hope in the early years... Having said that, after discovering that Xia Zuo's nerve damage was cured, and that Cecilia's eye burns and hearing loss could also be cured, I still couldn't help but have a little extravagant hope in my heart, which made me wonder, if medical technology continues to develop in this way, will my eyes be able to be cured one day in the future..."

Chi Feichi could tell that Rum was speaking from the heart.

Rum's mentality now is indeed like this: he doesn't think his eyes can be cured, but when he finds that medical technology has developed to a level that surprises him, he uncontrollably develops a bit of fantasy.

Just like those people with terminal illnesses, they know that their disease is currently difficult to cure and they think that they will never see the day when the disease can be cured. But when they find major breakthroughs in other medical technologies, they can’t help but pay attention to and learn more about them. If the field of breakthrough happens to be related to their own condition, they will be shaken deep in their hearts and begin to question their previous thoughts: Is there really no hope for my disease to be cured? With the speed of medical technology development, should I be more optimistic? Should I adjust my views? Or should I not have such extravagant hopes and fantasies as I do now?

Rum's reaction today was a true reflection of this contradictory mentality - on the one hand, he confirmed the news with him and learned about the situation, showing strong interest in the information; on the other hand, he felt that his condition was more complicated and more difficult to cure, and he did not want to hold out hope, letting reason suppress that glimmer of expectation deep in his heart. Therefore, after learning that Xia Zuo and Cecilia's injuries had been cured, Rum did not show any special joy or eagerness.

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Rum's eyes have been injured for so many years that he thought Rum had lost the desire to seek treatment. But now it seems that as a healthy person, he still cannot understand the feelings of those who have lost their health, and cannot accurately assess the degree of their pain, so he tends to underestimate those people's desire to regain their health.

However, now that he has discovered Rum's needs, he can take advantage of the situation to advance his plan...